According to the office of Cook County Medical Examination, a 5 -year -old boy in December died of a city -run migrant shelter in December, died of sepsis and a bacterial infection.
Jean Carlos Martinez Rivaro, Sepsis and Streptococcus Payogens died on 17 December, a bacterial infection that could cause Strep throat, the pathologists in the medical examiner’s office were concluded in a report released later this week.
Koronwirus, adenovirus and rhinovirus infection were listed as secondary causes of death.
Mayor Brandon Johnson expressed condolences in a statement for Jean Carlos’s family on Saturday, defending the care given to migrants in shelters, stating that the residents are offered “comprehensive medical examinations and care”.
The statement said, “The city of Chicago coordinates the phenomena of vaccination on site for all shelter residents, weekly on-scholader support, covid, varichela and flu, and is a network of community health centers for other health services,” the statement says.
Jean Carlos was ill for a few days before his death, his parents told the police. The family was begging for money earlier that day, but came home after the 5 -year -old child vomited.
In the shelter, his lips became purple, his parents told the police. The boy’s family members told the police that the employees had said that the malaise was “perhaps due to the cold”.
But when the boy complained that he had a stomach injury and his eyes rolled towards the back of his head, the staff started demonstrating the contraction of the chest on him and called for an ambulance. The boy was declared dead at Comel Children Hospital.
According to the city, Martinez Rivaro families reached Chicago on 30 November, and 2241 S. He was living in the warehouse in Helved St. ever since he arrived. At the time of the boy’s death, the warehouse kept several thousand migrants.
The city is residence of 12,637 migrants in 26 shelters till Saturday morning. Since June 2023, more than 35,000 migrants have reached Chicago, mostly from Venezuela.
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